- 61. Bilge pump (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Jepson" <bobbyhotrods@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:43:11 -0500
- Well, this might get through to the List. My ATTBI address became Comcast and I became unrecognizable to Majordomo; listening is good, though. I've been plodding forward with my scratchbuilt roadster
- /html/land-speed/2004-02/msg00214.html (6,899 bytes)
- 62. Kudos to HRM (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:57:09 +0000
- Great SW coverage in the latest issue, and that pic of Burt Munro blew me
- /html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00226.html (6,132 bytes)
- 63. Mikronite (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:41:25 +0000
- January Car Craft has an article on Mikronite (Eatontown, NJ) surface treatment of a ring and pinion. While it's proprietary, the technique uses high pressure blasting with some sort of media like wa
- /html/land-speed/2006-12/msg00001.html (6,486 bytes)
- 64. Christmas (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:21:06 +0000
- Did anyone get one of those lithium battery powered Makita impact wrenches? Jon I bet they're sweet...I've been good, but not THAT good... BJ in the Bean
- /html/land-speed/2006-12/msg00118.html (6,011 bytes)
- 65. Turbo Oiling (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:37:31 +0000
- My motor guy was by and asked, "Is that oil line to the turbo big enough?" "Beat's me". It's a #4 Teflon /SS hose, and it does look small. The mule motor has a wet sump and stock oil pump, the dry su
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00219.html (6,603 bytes)
- 66. They Told Me I Was Gullible, And I Believed Them (score: 1)
- Author: bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:38:40 +0000
- Last year as I recall there was supposed to be a golf tournament conflict. I never saw a golfer. I've never seen the golf course. Forgive me, I'm from the relatively lush East Coast, and going to Wen
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00248.html (6,721 bytes)
- 67. Heat-Wrap (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:55:16 +0000
- List, I don't recall a thread on this. I designed and made my turbo header subscribing to the hot-as-possible theory (heavy 321SS). Now I'm thinking the thing will be crazy hot in the puny engine bay
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00300.html (6,632 bytes)
- 68. RE: Heat-Wrap (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:21:40 +0000
- Well, what I've got probably didn't cost somebody up the line much more than that, but this T-4 thing was $1500 from Job Spetter Jr. at TurboPeople. A local guy goes REAL fast at the drags with one o
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00302.html (6,091 bytes)
- 69. VIN Decoding Website (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:53:35 +0000
- This in via Car Craft. Thanks, DF! http://www.decodethis.com/
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00354.html (6,231 bytes)
- 70. Heat Wrap lll (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:47:17 +0000
- So I took my header and turbine housing to the spray man, if for no other reason but to keep the thing from corroding. He showed me a photo of a snowmobile header that supposedly reaches 2300*, and h
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00455.html (6,805 bytes)
- 71. No Problemo (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:24:32 +0000
- Thanks to those who responded. It appears I'm good to go with my hi-temp copper anti-sieze and steel fasteners, unusual for me...BJ
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00467.html (6,194 bytes)
- 72. Dear Abby: Salt Etiquette? (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:11:07 +0000
- So this guy unloads a car near where my buddy's encampment was in Sunnyville '05 I think. It's bodiless but mostly done, a modified sports, tons of framework everywhere, nice, painted. So I wander ov
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00508.html (8,231 bytes)
- 73. Continuity Tests (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:47:46 +0000
- My car is ready to go but won't. The Accel fuel management apparently isn't squirting. The sparks are flying though. Everything's new and checked out prior to my involvement. Fortunately I found a fe
- /html/land-speed/2007-02/msg00036.html (7,029 bytes)
- 74. Idiot lights (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:03:16 +0000
- OK here's one. I'm deciding what kind of minimal driver information I'll want behind the wheel. There's not alot of room to display much anyway in a roadster with a tonneau-type cover. I'll just have
- /html/land-speed/2007-02/msg00089.html (7,113 bytes)
- 75. Test (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:53:55 +0000
- My motor guy says I'll have the motor for SW. I haven't bought a tent, a helmut, lead ballast, and alot of other stuff, just to increase the likelihood around August first I'll be going crazy and spe
- /html/land-speed/2007-04/msg00005.html (6,918 bytes)
- 76. Tools, and a Question (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 22:19:03 +0000
- A pal just got in his "Asian Wheel", that is, an imported English Wheel from Harbor Freight, $325 with extra dies. He said he thought the quality was very good, and the tool performs well. Recently h
- /html/land-speed/2007-05/msg00145.html (6,914 bytes)
- 77. Shutting It Off (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 00:20:53 +0000
- So the little man who works nights in my head awoke me to the news that my battery switch won't shut off anything except the battery with the alternator downstream. I inquired to a pal the best solut
- /html/land-speed/2007-05/msg00215.html (6,660 bytes)
- 78. H2 and Big Business (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:10:05 +0000
- Oddly enough, my current read, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Micheal Pollan, gets into the 1970's discovery of enzymes used to break down starches and thus create high fructose corn syrup (sweet as sugar
- /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00041.html (6,423 bytes)
- 79. [Land-speed] Lead Ballast (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:10:49 +0000
- After watching a pal spin and then load the car back up onto the trailer immediately thereafter, I equipped my roadster for ballast. The local purveyor wanted $2+ per pound for lead. I checked ebay a
- /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00056.html (7,124 bytes)
- 80. [Land-speed] Plating (score: 1)
- Author: Bobbyhotrods@comcast.net
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:13:16 +0000
- Finally a topic I know a little about. Dick, pickel (HCl) will strip the chrome quickly, but not the nickel. There's only an immeasurable amount of chrome on a "chrome" plating job. The nickel will b
- /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00171.html (7,850 bytes)
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